Million Dollar Devil

Publisher's Summary

Big-city sophistication meets carnal hunger in this devilish contemporary romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans.

Heir apparent to her father’s company, Lizzy Banks needs a man. The perfect man. But when the rich “fundbabies” she usually rubs shoulders with prove impossible to hire, she takes a chance on a raw beast of a man salvaged from the wreckage of a bar brawl. 

James Rowan earns a modest income as a YouTube daredevil, but he can’t refuse Lizzy’s million dollar deal. As she polishes his rough edges, creating a sophisticated gentleman fit for the highest circles of society, not only does she bring out the perfect man - it’s like she’s making the man of her dreams. How can she resist? 

Though Lizzy loves seeing James in his clothes - and out of them - he isn’t the kind of man you bring home to Daddy. Her father’s disapproval and the pressure of the campaign have her eyeing the straight and narrow, but Lizzy’s finding it awfully hard to resist the devil on her shoulder…

©2019 by Katy Evans. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Unbelievably Immature Female Lead

Elizabeth Banks is 25 years old, THE daughter of a powerful and wealthy man, a Stanford graduate vying to be the next CEO of the company her father created. She is beautiful, confident, worldly and educated. She works everyday of her life to earn her father's respect. So when her father asks her to take his place at a launch party for hundreds of the movers and shakers in their industry does she step up to the responsibility? I won't say what happens because I don't want to put any spoilers in this review.
I understand there are only so many tropes for "romance" novels. The formulaic impossible relationship followed by perceived or real betrayal then forgiveness and a HEA ending. What would make an author as good as Katy Evans stoop to making the female lead behave as she does? Surely there were other ways to make the story line work. I'm very disappointed and will be returning this book.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Jimmy is amazing!

James is just delicious! This dirty mouthed bad boy had me from the first time we meet him. His fierce protectiveness over his brother had me swooning. I loved his bad boy ways.

Elizabeth is striving to be the son that he father never had. She wants him to see her for the business woman that she is. When she comes up with the idea to make James the face of her new line, who knew what the future would hold for these two!

Ms. Evans tells a great tale with characters that are easy to love. Great read!

The narration really enhanced the story. I loved hearing the emotion in their voices as they conveyed these characters. They really brought the story to life.

It was okay

Liz and James is good together. The two were attracted to each other from the start but they didn't rush into it. They took the time to know each other and still manage to have a good work relationship.Liz's behavior at the Launch though, seriously that's the best way you could handle that situation? Almost ruined the whole book for me. I'm on the fence on this one so it's a 3.5⭐ for me. Some of Liz's ideas for making James into the perfect man didn't sit well with me either. My suggestion is read this one yourself to form your own opinion you might enjoy it a lot more than I did

A 5 star

Katy Evans is one of my favorite authors for a reason and this book is everything I love in her books. Elizabeth (Lizzy) wants her father to see her as a future CEO for Banks, Ltd. She finds herself facing Jimmy Rowan, the Daredevil, but perfect guy for the face of the new campaign. This story reminded me of Pygmalion in a reverse way. I absolutely loved it. The untamed, risk taker, YouTube sensation Jimmy will find himself more than a million dollar deal and Lizzy will see that not everything that she thought she wanted is what she needs. A 5 star read. The audiobook I must say is amazing, the narrators did an outstanding job and I totally recommend it as well.

Review: Million Dollar Devil

Million Dollar Devil by Katy Evans is a standalone rags-to-riches trope with the heroine finding the face of her new mens clothing line in a seedy bar one night. Well-written and well-paced, supremely hot with back and forth tension between these two that is palpable throughout the story. This story was fantastic. A refreshing twist on the millionaire trope with the rich one being the woman and the not-so-rich one being the male but never once did it emasculate him. A typically awesome Katy Evans book and a must-read, in my opinion. Enjoy!

The narrators were on point. They managed to showcase the characters nuances and emotions and listening/reading with whisper-sync was seamless with their skill and Katy's writing.

Swooning over the audio!

Million Dollar Devil is a melt your heart and captures your soul type of audiobooks!
Swooning over the narration!
Plus Katy Evans, is still the queen of Romance has done it again by stealing my heart and running off with it. Seriously I can’t express how hard I fell in love for James Rowan story. HECK NO! Maybe on another planet, it would be that easy but we are living on Planet Evans where the planets aline and you just to swoon or maybe drool in my case till the very even!!! BOOM 5 Stars all the way!!!

Is it me??

The female narrator sounds like she has a retainer in!! It ruins the story which is also not great..

Katy Evans does it again

storyline is wonderful as always ! The narrator's are perfect and spot-on . Reminds me more of her manwhore series less like the real series. but I do love how her characters are very true to nature and very relatable definitely a must-read.

Brilliant writer

Brilliant writer but was disappointed with the end of story a few of the story lines seemed unfinished . Right through the book it kept me captivated but was as I said early the story ending was disappointed.